In 2017, Lin Shu started working on the “Pagoda” series. The process of photographing pagodas means reconsidering and rediscovering photography. In Lin Shu photographic pursuit, he gradually slide into abstraction and emptiness but the pagoda pulls him back to the real world. Following the publication of Lin Shu's photobook Pagoda, IMAGELESS and Lin Shu cooperated again in 2023 to launch the artist's co-branded sculptural candle Pagoda 001.
Lin Shu, born in Fujian in 1981, graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Art College of Jimei University and the Oil Painting Department of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Taking photography, painting and publications as the main forms of creation, he moved to Beijing in 2010 and started his career as a freelance photographer.
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